Rubin: Sen. McConnell should make correcting Trump a trend
The glaring gulf between the world as it is and described by the Trump administration’s top intelligence advisers, on one hand, and the world that President Donald Trump concocts out of thin air, on...
View ArticleRubin: Michael Cohen’s testimony was devastating for Trump and the GOP he...
Michael Cohen’s testimony is as unprecedented as it is stunning: A direct witness to the actions of the president of the United States presented specific evidence of the president’s decades-old pattern...
View ArticleRubin: The benefits of Joe Biden
The Washington Post’s Dan Balz writes that “there is a belief among those loyal to (former Vice President Joe) Biden that … the 2020 campaign could be uniquely set up to his advantage, as the...
View ArticleRubin: Hickenlooper’s first stump speech had a solid message if he can deliver
Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, held a 2020 presidential campaign kickoff rally on Thursday in Denver, where he served two terms as mayor. Not normally known for punchy...
View ArticleRubin: Beto O’Rourke: Savior or slacker?
To a lot of women, and maybe some men as well, Beto O’Rourke can seem clueless if not self-absorbed. He has made a series of textbook “white privilege” utterances. “I’m just born to be in it,” he told...
View ArticleRubin: How much pain is the president going to inflict on those who elected him?
In an interview Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former treasury secretary Hank Paulson was asked about the latest round in the tariff war that Trump has embarked upon with China. (On Friday,...
View ArticleRubin: Michael Bennet knows what’s wrong with America
The mild-mannered, wonkish Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colo., can get really steamed. His anger these days often is directed at the Republican Party, which he doesn’t hesitate to say has become...
View ArticleRubin: Two speeches, two halves of the Democratic campaign
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., each got enthusiastic responses from the crowd at California’s Democratic Party convention on Saturday even as they provided two entirely...
View ArticleRubin: Who’s rising, who’s falling and who’s invisible
The first round of Democratic debates on Wednesday and Thursday provides an opportunity for candidates to reintroduce — or in many cases, introduce — themselves to the Democratic electorate. Each...
View ArticleRubin: Harris’ health care retreat shows it never pays to follow the herd
The meme, pushed by President Donald Trump, that the Democrats have all gone far left turns out to be, in the words of former vice president Joe Biden, a moderate who still leads the presidential...
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